Speaker Paul Ryan on Steve Scalise’s Recovery: ‘He’s Got a Long Road Ahead of Him but He’s Going To Be Okay’

‘It was really very emotional for us’

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RYAN: "It was -- it was really very emotional for us. I've been seeing and visiting with and talking with Steve, myself, but most of our members hadn't had a chance to even hear his voice. He was just out on a baseball field, 7:30 in the morning, practicing baseball for a charity game, when this guy opened fire and hit him through the hips. He's going to be okay, but he's in a rehab hospital now out of the intensive care unit. He's got a long road ahead of him, but he's going to be okay. He is very, very strong and sound in mind and his body's healing and I got to tell you, it was extremely cathartic for all of us and my members were really, really relieved just to hear his voice, to hear him talk. He was just talking about work, talking about getting back to work and getting things done."
TAPPER: "How did he sound?"
RYAN: "Great, great."
TAPPER: "Sounded like him in normal --"
RYAN: "I'd gone to see him a number of times. He's eating well. He has a lot of physical therapy ahead of him."
TAPPER: "Is he going to walk again?"
RYAN: "He's going to walk but he's going to have to relearn how to it. I won't go into the details of the multiple operations he's had, but, yeah, he's going to walk."

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